EasyUnZip vs NanaZip

EasyUnZip vs NanaZip

NanaZip is a free 7-Zip fork that creates and extracts archives. EasyUnZip only extracts ZIP and RAR, from a hotkey. Here is when each is the better pick.

The short answer

Choose NanaZip if you also create archives, open formats beyond ZIP and RAR, or simply want a free tool. Choose EasyUnZip if what you mostly do is unpack ZIP and RAR files, often several at once, straight from File Explorer.

We publish this comparison and we sell one of the two products in it. NanaZip is free, open-source software. Read what follows with both of those in mind.

What they share

Both get your files out with 7-Zip code. NanaZip is, in its own words, "an open source file archiver intended for the modern Windows experience", forked from 7-Zip's source by Kenji Mouri and M2-Team. EasyUnZip does not fork anything: it ships the official 7-Zip binaries, 7z.exe and 7z.dll, under the LGPL and drives them. If you want to see what that engine does on its own, the EasyUnZip vs 7-Zip comparison covers it.

Both also install from the Microsoft Store. NanaZip is free there. EasyUnZip is free to install there too, and the licence is bought from this site once the 14-day trial ends.

Choose NanaZip when

• You need to create archives. EasyUnZip cannot, at all.
• You open 7z, TAR, ISO or the newer codecs NanaZip adds, such as Zstandard. EasyUnZip ignores everything but ZIP and RAR.
• You want an archiver in File Explorer's right-click menu, Windows 11's modern one included.
• You want a native ARM64 build. EasyUnZip is built for x64 only.
• You value its security defaults: NanaZip passes Mark of the Web on to extracted files by default and builds in mitigations such as CFG and CET.
• You would rather not pay, and NanaZip is free and open source.

Choose EasyUnZip when

• You want extraction to be one keystroke over a selection in File Explorer, with no window to open or close afterwards.
• You handle several archives at once and want them sent to one place, a subfolder each, or a different path per archive, in one job.
• You want only some of what is inside. The panel lists the contents by extension with a count; untick the rest and it is never written to disk.
• You want overwrite, skip or keep both decided once per job, and a password asked once and held in memory for the session only.
• You keep meeting archives with names Windows will not accept, paths past the 260-character limit, or files locked by another program. EasyUnZip repairs the names, uses extended-length paths and retries the locked files.
• $9.99 once, covering 3 PCs, is worth that to you.

Using both

That works, and it is a sensible split: NanaZip for making archives and for formats beyond ZIP and RAR, EasyUnZip for the daily unpacking. Nothing conflicts, because EasyUnZip adds no right-click entry and takes over no file associations. If you are weighing NanaZip because you are leaving WinRAR, the WinRAR alternatives for Windows 11 page sets it beside 7-Zip, PeaZip, Bandizip and File Explorer, and EasyUnZip vs WinRAR covers that pairing directly. If File Explorer's own Extract All is what you use today, see where the Extract All wizard stops.

Try it on your own archives

Start the 14-day trial, with no card and no account: get EasyUnZip from the Microsoft Store, or run winget install 9P98XXWQ56S4 -s msstore in a terminal.